Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature

Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum. The book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies to offer new readings of popularly taught literary texts and discuss their relation to empathy.

About the author

Dr. Lauren A. Weber is Lecturer in English Education in the School of Education at the University of Wollongong. She specialises in the teaching and learning of literature and English as a subject from primary to tertiary contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren A Weber, Lauren A. Weber
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.12.2025
• EAN: 9781839994197
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-419-7
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literature: history and criticism, Children's & Teenage Book Reviews & Guides, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general